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In part five of Books That Shaped America, the National Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen explored The Common Law, an 1881 book authored by legal scholar and jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes J…

Theodore Olson and Douglas Smith talked about the 1962 Supreme Court case Baker v. Carr, in which the court ruled that the drawing of election districts was a constitutional rather than a po…

Library of Congress historian and curator Ryan Reft gave a tour of an exhibit tracing the history of U.S. participation in World War I using artwork, posters, photographs, films, sheet music…

Library of Congress historian and curator Ryan Reft gave a tour of an exhibit tracing the history of U.S. participation in World War I using artwork, posters, photographs, films, sheet music…

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress discussed documents by Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and Lewis Powell that shed light on the behind-the-scenes wrangling over the Court’s decisi…

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress discussed the process Supreme Court justices used to decide whether to take up Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress talked about one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s first civil rights cases and his ideas to change the way the NAACP fought for equal rights …